openSUSE 11.0: Installing ATI and nVidia Video Drivers

opensuse7tg1 openSUSE 11.0: Installing ATI and nVidia Video Drivers With openSUSE 11.0 the installation of ATI and nVidia video cards drivers is just 1-click away, no manual configuration of xorg.conf is required. Same is true for switching on Xgl, if you are using ATI card and prefer it over AIGLX, to get Compiz running, just launch simple-ccsm and enable compiz, once the driver is being installed.

1a. Click one of the 1-click install icons that corresponds to your video card:

1b. Or you can install it manually using the following command:

su -c “OCICLI http://opensuse-community.org/ati.ymp” (ATI cards)

su -c “OCICLI http://opensuse-community.org/nvidia.ymp” (nVidia cards)

1c. One more commandline way using new zypper:

For ATI cards:

zypper sa http://www2.ati.com/suse/11.0 ati

zypper in x11-video-fglrxG01

For nVidia cards:

zypper sa http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.0 nvidia

zypper in x11-video-nvidiaG01

2. If for some reason the X-server didn’t detect the presence of new drivers once you restart your desktop environment:

ATI cards:

Open a terminal and type sudo aticonfig –initial. This will configure X to use the ATI driver and then restart the DE, by pressing CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE.

nVidia cards:

As root, type sax2 -r into a terminal window, and SaX will redetect the NVIDIA chipset and allow you to set up your desired resolution.

openSUSE 11.0 comes pre-installed with Compiz and Compiz Fusion 0.7.4 release.

This is great, as installing video drivers has been a troublesome area, and hopefully this new feature will make using openSUSE much more pleasant. Thanks to Jigish Gohil, you can always get the latest version of Compiz and Compiz Fusion in the X11:XGL openSUSE Build Service repository. In his home:cyberorg repository you can also find recent snapshots of the development tree, where you can also have direct access to a plethora of extra plugins developed by the Compiz Fusion developers.

For more updated information, check out the folllowing links as per your video card: ATI and nVidia

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Comment by E@zyVG on June 16, 2008

:) Same here, tried on notebook with Xpress M200 and the desktop with older Radeon 800GTO2 … works like a charm. Also worked on my primary desktop with nVidia 8800GT card … simply great.

A much better and simpler installation process compared to that on Windows. I just hope it will work with most of the openSUSE users … no more complaints about all the fuss with video drivers.

Comment by E@zyVG on June 25, 2008

It is kinda hard, but getting better … not stinky.

With above 1-click it is even better than installer, but you can always go and get that driver from
developers site and install manually … yes, more difficult compared to .exe/.msi installer on Windows, but we all hope that it will soon be easier. Developers need to support Linux and other OS on a better level.

Comment by Stefan on June 28, 2008

No Luck… Did everything according to instructions. I’ve got a Nvidia Geforce 7300 GT, but in Sax2 the card still shows ‘VESA FRAMEBUFFER GRAPHICS’. Im also running dual screens and I’ve got no idea how to set that up properly, im guessing the installed driver will help. any suggestions?

Comment by Steven on July 07, 2008

i need help, it didn’t work, i have an ati radeon x1300/1500, 256 mb of ram(idk which kind prob gddr1 or 2) when i typed “sudo aticonfig -initial” it told me to give it root pass word, i gave it and it went through, however, after this it gave me a message saying
Warning: Could not find configuration file
Please copy configuration file template to /etc/X11

i am relativily new to linux, and in failure of partitioning windows xp, i switched to openSuse 11, because i am the most acustonmed to it (even more so than mandriva) but can someone plz tell me what i should do, i’ma a newb and want to get wine and compiz fusion to work, i am supposed to use the drivers 8.40 or earlier i think, cause my card is old, but idk plz help

sincerily, steven

Comment by poletti.marco on August 30, 2008

It doesn’t work for me (ATI HD3850). I have just installed SuSE, downloaded all suggested updates, then used one-click install and BANG! now my desktop is in text mode :-(

Executing startx showed this error:

(EE) fglrx(0): vm86() syscall generated signal 11.
(II) Module “ddc” already built-in

Backtrace:
0: X(xf86SigHandler+0×7e) [0x80d3bce]
1: [0xffffe400]
2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//drivers/fglrx_drv.so(setup_int+0×29) [0xb7b8fea9]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//drivers/fglrx_drv.so(xf86ExecX86int10+0×25) [0xb7b8f5a5]
4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvbe.so(VBEGetModeInfo+0×69) [0xb7798fe9]
5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//drivers/fglrx_drv.so [0xb793c477]
6: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//drivers/fglrx_drv.so(swlDalHelperSetSafeMode+0×3e) [0xb793831e]
7: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//drivers/fglrx_drv.so(swlDalHelperPreInit+0×637) [0xb793a377]
8: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//drivers/fglrx_drv.so(atiddxPreInit+0xf47) [0xb790a997]
9: X(InitOutput+0xa1f) [0x80aac9f]
10: X(main+0×2b1) [0x8074091]
11: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7d935f5]
12: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0×225) [0x8073581]

Any tips?